[ih] GOSIP & compliance

[John Day]

I believe that was more the excuse to justify building it and putting it in every subscriber. The other uses was part of the plan all along. In fact, the plan was that everything that today would be the Web would be owned by the PTT. It was railing against that that got Pouzin in trouble.

> On Mar 20, 2022, at 12:41, John Levine via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> It appears that Bob Purvy via Internet-history <bpurvy at gmail.com> said:
>> One still wonders why the other European PTTs didn't do their own and
>> interoperate with Minitel. Too much NIH?
> 
> Remember that the business case for Minitel was that it would replace
> paper phone books and directory assistance operators.  Everything else
> was an add-on.  You didn't need to interoperate to do that.
> 
> R's,
> John
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